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Journalists who were killed.
Social Media could be such a great tool to unite the world, instead it has divided it. There are now people who only believe the 'news' they see on Social Media and take it as gospel, no matter how manipulated it is. Then there are those who solely trust other news outlets, often referred as the Mainstream Media. Luckily there are still some who have the ability to do some critical thinking.
Regardless what you think of this so called Mainstream Media, there is one point that can not be disputed. Between 1992 and 2021,1411 reporters from the 'Mainstream Media' were killed. Where as no keyboard warrior Social Media reporter has ever been killed.
I am not going through all the reporters that were killed. I just focus on a few of them. However I will have the list of all killed reporters and journalists at the end of the blog.
Ulf Strömberg
Strömberg, a cameraman for the Swedish channel TV4, was murdered in the early morning during a robbery at the house in Taloqan, Afghanistan where he and several other journalists were staying.
At around 2 a.m., armed gunmen broke into the house and entered the room where two journalists from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet were sleeping. The intruders demanded money, which they were given, and also stole equipment including cameras, computers, and a satellite phone, according to Aftonbladet.
The robbers threatened to kill the two journalists-Martin Adler, a photographer, and Bo Liden, a correspondent-but left the room after an Afghan translator intervened on their behalf, according to a Reuters report. The gunmen then proceeded to the room Strömberg was sharing with his TV4 colleague Rolf Porseryd, a correspondent. Porseryd told reporters that Strömberg went to the door and slammed it shut when he saw the gunmen, who fired several shots before fleeing.
Strömberg, 42, was apparently hit in the chest by a bullet fired through the door. Though colleagues rushed him to a local hospital, his wounds were fatal.
If you ever needed evidence that history repeats itself. Strömberg was killed in Taloqan, Afghanistan on November 26, 2001.
Veronica Guerin
Guerin, a crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, was shot dead by assailants on a motorcycle as she was stopped in her car at a traffic light in Dublin. She had been repeatedly targeted for physical attacks, a shooting, and death threats because of her incisive, continuing investigation into Ireland's criminal underworld that had garnered her CPJ's 1995 International Press Freedom Award.
Two men, Brian Meehan and Paul Ward, were convicted for her murder in 1999 and 1998. Ward's conviction was overturned in 2002, but he remains in prison, where he is serving a 12-year sentence for taking part in a prison riot. John Gilligan, a known Dublin drug trafficker, was also charged but was acquitted because of lack of evidence on March 16, 2001, despite the judge's assertion that there were "grave suspicions" of Gilligan's complicity in the killing.
On October 23, 2020 Spanish police arrested Gilligan at his villa in Alicante in southeastern Spain as part of an investigation into suspected trafficking of marijuana and prescription drugs from Spain to Ireland and the U.K., the BBC reported. During the raid, police recovered a Colt Python revolver which was buried in the garden of the villa — the same model that was used in the journalist's murder, The Guardian reported. According to that report, Spanish and Irish police were examining the weapon to determine whether it was used in the assassination.
Veronica Guerin worked for the Sunday Independent. She was killed in Dublin, Ireland June 26, 1996.
U.S. government officials confirmed on February 21, 2002, that Pearl, kidnapped South Asia correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, had been killed by his captors.
The exact date of his murder was uncertain, but authorities announced his death after receiving a graphic, three-and-a-half minute digital videotape containing scenes in which one of the killers slits Pearl's throat, and then someone holds his severed head. The faces of the assailants are not visible on the video. This, and other details below, are documented in an extensive report on Pearl's murder, entitled The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl, published in 2011 by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Center for Public Integrity.
Pearl, 38, went missing on January 23, 2002, in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, and was last seen on his way to an interview at the Village Restaurant, downtown near the Metropole Hotel. According to The Wall Street Journal, Pearl had been reporting on Richard Reid, a suspected terrorist who allegedly tried to blow up an airplane during a transatlantic flight with a bomb in his shoe.
Four days after his disappearance, a group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" sent an e-mail to several U.S.- and Pakistan-based news organizations claiming responsibility for kidnapping Pearl and accusing him of being an American spy. The e-mail also contained four photographs of the journalist, including one in which he is held at gunpoint and another in which he is holding a copy of the January 24 issue of Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
The e-mail contained a series of demands, including the repatriation of Pakistani detainees held by the U.S. Army in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The sender or senders, who used a Hotmail e-mail account under the name "Kidnapper guy," said Pearl was "at present being kept in very inhuman circumstances quite similar in fact to the way that Pakistanis and nationals of other sovereign countries are being kept in Cuba by the American Army."
Another e-mail was sent on January 30, also including photographs of Pearl held captive. This e-mail accused him of being an agent of Mossad, Israel's spy agency, and said he would be killed within 24 hours unless the group's demands were met.
After scrutinizing the videotape that officials received weeks later, authorities believe that Pearl may have been murdered before the second e-mail was sent. During that footage, Pearl is forced to identify himself as Jewish and to deliver scripted lines reiterating some of the demands made in the e-mails, according to an FBI analysis of the tape that was provided to the Journal.
On February 12, 2002, before Pearl's murder was discovered, Pakistani police announced the arrest of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, whom they identified as the prime suspect behind the journalist's kidnapping.
On March 14, a U.S. grand jury indicted Saeed, charging him with hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit hostage-taking resulting in Pearl's murder. U.S. prosecutors also unsealed a secret indictment filed against Saeed in November 2001 accusing him of participating in the 1994 kidnapping of U.S. tourist Bela Nuss in India. Pakistan refused to extradite Saeed, possibly to avoid damaging disclosures of links between the country's intelligence agencies and militant Islamist groups that the United States wants to see eliminated.
In April, Saeed and three accomplices–Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem, and Shaikh Adil–were charged with Pearl's kidnapping and murder before Pakistan's special anti-terrorism court. The trial, initially convened at Karachi's Central Jail and later moved to a heavily guarded prison in Hyderabad due to security concerns, was closed to journalists and the public.
In mid-May, as the trial was under way, police found a dismembered body believed to be Pearl's buried in the outskirts of Karachi on property owned by the Al-Rashid Trust, an Islamic charity that the United States has accused of funneling money to al-Qaeda. Police were reportedly led to the shallow grave by Fazal Karim, a member of the banned militant Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. At year's end, Karim had not been charged, and though it has been widely reported that he was detained, authorities have never officially acknowledged his arrest.
On July 15, 2002, the anti-terrorism court announced that Saeed and his accomplices were guilty of Pearl's kidnapping and murder. Saeed, who was accused of masterminding the crime, was sentenced to death by hanging; Saqib, Naseem, and Adil each received 25-year prison sentences. They appealed the ruling.
Shortly after the ruling, U.S. officials announced DNA test results confirming that the body found in May was indeed Pearl's.
In mid-August, 2002, The Associated Press published a detailed account of Pearl's kidnapping, citing two investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity. The officials said that, according to Karim (who had led police to the journalist's body in May) and two others held in unofficial custody, Pearl was shot and wounded on the sixth day of his capture when he tried to escape and was murdered on the ninth day. The AP identified the two other detainees as Zubair Chishti and Naeem Bukhari, who is also known as Attaur Rehman and is a leader of the sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The men also said that three Arabs, possibly from Yemen, were brought to the hideout on the ninth day, and that they were involved in filming and carrying out the execution.
Karim later identified one of the Yemenis among those arrested in a September 11, 2002, raid in Karachi, during which U.S. and Pakistani authorities detained several suspected al-Qaeda members, including Ramzi Binalshibh, allegedly a senior al-Qaeda leader who has claimed a central role in coordinating the September 11 attacks.
In 2007, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected of masterminding the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., was reported to have confessed to a U.S. military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to personally having slit Pearl's throat, according to news reports. A trial date for Mohammed's role in the 9/11 attack has been set for January 11, 2021, although it's not certain if the trial will proceed, according to news reports.
A former U.S. intelligence officer, Robert Baer, told the United Press International (UPI) news agency in 2002 that he had given Pearl information about Mohammed, and that he believes it was the journalist's investigations of Mohammed that may have cost him his life. Baer, who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years in Asia and the Middle East and wrote the book See No Evil, which criticizes the CIA, told UPI, "I have heard from [intelligence] people who follow this closely that it was people close to Mohammed that killed him, if it wasn't Mohammed himself."
UPI quoted a Wall Street Journal spokesperson as saying that, "Everything we know from before and after Danny's murder indicates his reporting effort focused on [alleged shoe bomber] Richard Reid."
On April 2, 2020, the Sindh High Court overturned the murder convictions of the four men accused in Pearl's killing, according to news reports. The decision found Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had previously been sentenced to death, guilty only of kidnapping Pearl and reduced his sentence to seven years, which he has already served. The Pearl family and the Sindh provincial government appealed, and the four men remained imprisoned as of October 2020, awaiting further action by the Supreme Court, according to news reports.
Daniel Pearl worked for The Wall Street Journal. He was killed in Karachi, Pakistan, between January 23 and February 21, 2002.
Ahmad Omaid Khpalwak
Khpalwak, 25, a BBC and Pajhwok Afghan News reporter, was
among at least 22 people killed after gunmen and suicide bombers launched a combined attack on government buildings including the governor's office and police headquarters in Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province, local and international news reports said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the series of explosions and subsequent gun battle with Afghan and NATO security forces, the reports said. News reports said Khpalwak was killed in crossfire after the
initial bomb blasts.
Khpalwak was in the local branch office of state broadcaster Radio and Television of Afghanistan when the attack began, according to Danish Karokhel, the director of Pajhwok. Khpalwak, who had office space in the building, was filing his morning report at the time.
In a statement released on September 8, 2011, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan said one of its
soldiers had shot Khpalwak because he thought he was an armed insurgent
reaching for a bomb under his vest. "He was unarmed; no weapon was found nearby. It appears all the rounds perceived as coming from him were instead fired by U.S. soldiers," the ISAF statement said. Investigators concluded troops may have mistaken a press card Khpalwak was holding up as identification for a bomb trigger.
The BBC reported that Khpalwak sent his brother two text
messages shortly before his death. The first read: "I am hiding. Death has
come." In the second, he wrote: "Pray for me if I die."
Ahmad Omaid Khpalwak worked for Pajhwok Afghan News, BBC .He was killed in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan on July 28, 2011
Danish Siddiqui
Danish Siddiqui was killed on July 16, 2021, while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in the town of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan, according to news reports and Reuters, citing Afghan military officials.
Siddiqui, 38, was embedded with Afghan special forces at the time of his death, according to those reports. He told his employer that he had been wounded in the arm by shrapnel earlier that day while reporting and had resumed work after receiving medical treatment.
Siddiqui was talking to shopkeepers when the Taliban attacked, and was killed in a subsequent crossfire, an Afghan commander told Reuters.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters that the militant group had not been aware there was a journalist on the scene, and said it was unclear how Siddiqui was killed.
Siddiqui was a member of the Reuters photography team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for "shocking photographs that exposed the world to violence Rohingya refugees faced in fleeing Myanmar."
A Reuters spokesperson told CPJ via email that the outlet is working to verify the facts surrounding Siddiqui's death and has engaged outside experts to conduct an independent review of the circumstances leading up to, around, and after his death. Reuters is also conducting an internal review, the spokesperson said.
CPJ emailed Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior for comment, but did not receive any response.
Danish Siddiqui worked for Reuter. He was killed in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan on July 16, 2021.
So the next time you complain about or even ridicule the so called 'Mainstream Media' just remember the sacrifices they have made. Sacrifices which will never be made by these 'experts' on social media.
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Posted bydirkdeklein August 26, 2021 August 26, 2021 Posted inAfghanistan, News Broadcast, News Papers, TerrorismTags:Afghanistan, BBC, Daniel Pearl, History, Killed, Killed in action, Murdered, Reporters, Reuters, Sunday Independent, Sweden, Taliban, Veronica Guerin, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post1 Comment on Journalists who were killed.
Reporting the Holocaust.
It is often said that no one knew what happened in the concentration camps. But in fact people just didn't want to know or could fathom the horrors and therefore decided to stick their heads in the sand.
I am not referring to the Germans on this occasion but to the people in the USA,UK and other European countries, if they only would have paid more attention to the various reports which were published. like the above newspaper article of June 25, 1942.
Or the headlines below which were in the news prior to the holocaust.
The Times, 8 November 1935
"Like so many Nazi catchwords… "May Jewry perish!" – was meant literally and will be literally brought to pass if the fanatics have their way."
New York Times, 16 August 1936
"This contact with many nationalities and races has made the Germans more human again." Frederick T Birchall reports on the Berlin Olympics,
The Times, 25 October 1940
"…they will be driven into the ghetto forcibly. An official explanation says that Jewish homes are known to be breeding-places of pestilence." Report on the sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto
The Guatdian
Posted bydirkdeklein December 30, 2018 Posted inHistory, Holocaust, News Papers, World War 2Tags:History, Holocaust, News headlines, Newspapers, World War 21 Comment on Reporting the Holocaust.
The first broadsheet newspaper
On this day 400 years ago the first Dutch newspaper was published. Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. was the first Dutch newspaper and published weekly. The paper does not reveal the name of the printer or the publisher, but based on similar papers published later, it is thought that Joris Veseler was the printer and Caspar van Hilten its editor and publisher.
It was a regular weekly publication. It can be called the first broadsheet paper, because it was issued in folio-size. Before this, news periodicals had been pamphlets in quarto-size.
The Courante appeared until about 1672 and was then merged with the Ordinarisse Middel-Weeckse Courant and the Ordinaris Dingsdaegse Courant into the Amsterdam Courant, which eventually merged with De Telegraaf in 1903.
Stanley Morison and some other authors regard the Courante as the world's first proper newspaper. In their view, the earlier news periodicals, such as the German Relation: aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien and the Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, were not newspapers but pamphlets or newsbooks. They argue that the Courante was the first to express the typographic conventions that have been associated with newspapers ever since.
Two years after starting the Courante, Veseler printed the first newspaper in English for the publisher Pieter van den Keere. It followed the format of the Courante.
After the very beginning, English news periodicals reverted to the pamphlet form. However, in 1665 the Oxford Gazette was published following the style of the Dutch Courante and that ended the era of the newsbooks in England.
Posted bydirkdeklein June 14, 2018 June 14, 2018 Posted inHistory, News Papers, the NetherlandsTags:Broadsheet, History, Newspapers, the Netherlands1 Comment on The first broadsheet newspaper
WWII Newspaper coverage
Good news coverage is always very important to keep yourself informed, but in times of war this importance is amplified manyfold.
I still clearly remember when the Gulf war-Operation Desert storm broke out, it was probably one of the first times there was instant live news coverage of a war, and it was mesmerizing, The media used then was television, of course during WWII the television wasn't as advanced as it is now so people relied on Newspapers to stay informed.
Some of the news coverage was heavily propagandized though. Below are some examples of Newspaper headlined from WWII, in no particular order.
1943 Volkischer Beobachter (Germany) front page reporting the German Army defeat at Stalingrad saying "They died, so that Germany can live"
This is a strange one, it is a German propaganda news paper in English , called Swastika Times.
The Axis powers, especially Germany, also produced leaflets and newspapers targeted on enemy soldiers. Consider again the situation in North West Europe after D-Day. The Germans executed an extensive and inventive leaflet campaign against the Allied forces as they fought their way across France and Belgium into Germany. Other than during the Ardennes Offensive they had relatively little news to exploit in their favour but certain themes had the potential to weaken the enemy soldier's morale, make him over-self-protective, and question his post-war prospects. Relative to the Allies' well-oiled newspaper publishing machine, the German's newspaper publishing efforts appeared to be sporadic and inconsistent.
Posted bydirkdeklein January 24, 2018 Posted inHistory, Nazi Propganda, News Papers, Propaganda, World War 2Tags:History, Newspapers, Propaganda, World War 22 Comments on WWII Newspaper coverage
Just some old news
I find it always intriguing to look back at old news papers and especially old headlines. They often transport you back to days of yore.
Following are just some random old news papers pages.
Midnight Globe, August 1978 (Priscilla Presley and John Travolta)
Sid Vicious was to appear in court this afternoon accused of stabbing his go-go dancer girl friend to death.
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), hard to believe it has been over 20 years.
Elvis Presley died August 16 1977 in his Memphis home (Graceland). He was found collapsed on his bathroom floor from an apparent massive heart attack.
Berlin Wall Tumbles – November, 1989
the Kray twins
Judy was Star in Final Role, judy garland died
The assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14,1865
Posted bydirkdeklein December 16, 2017 December 16, 2017 Posted inHistory, News PapersTags:History, John Travolta, News Papers, Priscilla Preseley, Tabloids1 Comment on Just some old news
Karl Amadeus Hartmann-Protesting against the Nazi regime through Music
Epic Rock Ballads-Episode 4: The Who/Limp Bizkit-Behind Blue Eyes


This is the "split-off" game from the Fall of Pun-Pun. Go ahead and post your sheets here (or links to them), when they're ready. The OOC discussion thread is here, but you can also (cross)post in the Fall of Pun-Pun thread if you think it might concern both games. Eventually, the characters in these games will interact, but initially they'll be completely separate.
Spell-Like abilities: Detect magic, Nystul's Magical Aura, Nystul's Undetectable aura, and read magic 1/day (CL=Character Level.
Spells: 5/5+2/5+2/5+2/5+1/3+1 per day, 5/4/4/3/2/1 known.
Dragontouched (Ex): A dragonmage gains Dragontouched as a bonus feat, even if he does not meet the prerequisites. In addition, any draconic feats he selects function as if his draconic ancestors were of the same type as any Ideal he expresses. For example, a dragonmage with the Draconic Heritage feat who expressed the Black Dragon Ideal would gain the benefit of Draconic Heritage (Black); if he switched the next day to the Gold Dragon Ideal he would gain the benefit of Draconic Heritage (Gold) instead.
Ideal quickening (Su): When there is a conjunction between the Ideal a dragonmage expresses and the blood quickening meditation he has undertaken, the latter reinforces the former, drawing him closer to the Draconic Ideal. Whenever the meditation that a dragonmage of 2nd level or higher grants a skill bonus to a skill associated with the Ideal that he is expressing, the dragonmage gains a +1 bonus to Idealist level with ideal powers from that Ideal. He still does not gain higher tier ideal powers from this increase than he would normally have access to.
Breath (Su): Beginning at 2nd level, a dragonmage learns the next draconic technique in his arsenal, gaining the ability to breathe a blast of energy at his foes. By sacrificing a spell slot as a standard action, the dragonmage deals energy damage equal to 1d6 per level of the sacrificed slot to all foes in a line of length equal to 5 feet per class level. Opponents gain a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 caster level + Charisma modifier) for half damage; the type of energy is given by his expressed Ideal. If the dragonmage is expressing more than one ideal (see Dual Ideal, below), he chooses one type of energy associated with one of his Ideals at the time he sacrifices the spell slot. At 6th level, and every 4 levels after, the damage die size increases as shown on the table above.
Scales (Su): At 3rd level, a dragonmage's skin begins to harden, emulating the protective scales on a dragon's outer surface. He gains a natural armor bonus equal to his Constitution modifier, and energy resistance equal to his Charisma modifier against the associated energy type of his expressed Ideal. If the dragonmage is expressing more than one ideal (see Dual Ideal, below), he gains resistance against every energy type associate with an expressed Ideal.
Meditative focus (Su): A 4th-level spellscale dragonmage's expression of the Draconic Ideal can aid his meditative pursuit of the Dragon Gods as well. By spending a use of his ideal powers, the dragonmage can gain an additional use of the ability or metamagic feat granted to him by his blood quickening meditation.
Wings (Su): At 7th level, a dragonmage learns the secrets of draconic mobility, gaining the ability to grow wings for short periods of time. By sacrificing a spell slot as a swift action, the dragonmage may grant himself a fly speed equal to 10 feet times the level of the spell slot, with good maneuverability. This fly speed lasts a number of rounds equal to the dragonmage's Charisma modifier.
Arcane ideal (Su): Upon reaching 8th level, a dragonmage learns how to apply his ethos more fully to his magical lore. When casting a dragonmage, spell, the dragonmage may spend a number of daily uses of his ideal powers equal to the level of the spell to cast the spell without spending a spell slot. He must have a spell slot of the appropriate level remaining to use this ability.
Lesser dragonsight (Su): At 9th level, a dragonmage's senses have become honed through constant exposure to arcane energies. He gains blindsense out to a range of 5 feet times his Charisma modifier, and can use detect magic at will as a supernatural ability.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Historians are proficient with all simple weapons and light and medium armour, as well as all shields (except tower shields).
At Home Within the Past (Ex): More at home within the ancient lands and texts of great legends, the historian receives a +1 bonus for every three class levels on Diplomacy when dealing with primitive cultures. If he does not speak their language, half an hour of listening to it being spoken allows him to make a DC 15 Intelligence check. If he succeeds, the historian may speak their language in a pidgin format.
Ancient Practicality (Ex): The Historian has studied many strange and unusual happenings during his journeys. He has been forced to defend himself with whatever was at hand, and has developed a knack for combat with many strange weapons. The Historian is proficient with all ancient weapons.
Master of Ancient Weaponry (Ex): Having spent his life training with the weapons of forgotten cultures and hidden civilizations, by 4th level the Historian is more at home with a kopesh in his hand than a short sword. He gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls with ancient weapons for every 4 levels of Historian he has.
Revolution (Ex): Performing a revolution within his own mind, at 6th level a Historian can evict the current era to which he is attuned, and instead replace it with another era for which he meets the prerequisites. He may do this once per day; if he is attuned to more than one era, he may only replace one era to which he is attuned. This takes a standard action; if the attunement check fails, the use is not wasted, but his era does not change and he suffers the penalty for a failed attunement check.
Historical Comparison (Ex): Merging two seperate eras of history within a single mind, the Historian sees and analyzes the possibilites of both, using both together to confuse his enemy as he steps from time to time among the artefacts of the past. Beginning at 8th level, he may attune a second era at the beginning of each day, gaining the benefits of both simultaneously.
The Historian is an amalgam of various pieces of the past, pieces that he has studied and that he has deciphered along the course of his travels. These techniques are the methods that he uses to fight, surmising correctly that men who have seen a thousand battles in the modern era have yet never seen the military flourishes and twisted weapons of Bohortha Eilan, and may still be stunned by a violent and unexpected charge. Spellcasters who have been cuffed into seeing magic in discrete, labelled little boxes are stunned to see the Historian build from the elemental blocks of magic, while priests of modern, orderly prayer and fasting see the wild gyrations and ancient machinations of the Historian as an affront to religion, yet the Historian can call on forces far old and far wiser than that of the modern priest.
Each morning, when the Historian arises to face the day, he chooses which of the three techniques to employ for that day. This process takes one hour, and can be comprised of sword-fighting, simple meditation, muttering and casting of unusual spells, or a walk through a gently rolling hillside. He must have the entire hour uninterrupted by anything outside of his focus on the ancient techniques, however. He may only attune to a single technique each day, except where certain abilities allow for multiple uses. Any choices dependent on the technique (such as styles, spells, etc) are made when attuning to the technique at the beginning of the day.
Ancient Warfare: Ancient warfare techniques are strange and unusual to the modern eye, perhaps wearing too little armour or too much for the climate, armed with a weapon that no one has seen the like of before. The unusual combat styles that come with his ancient attacks give him a burst of advantage, but that slowly fades as creatures recognize the patterns and strikes behind the attack. While attuned to the ancient warfare technique, the Historian recieves a few bonuses, even if he does not attune an era.◦The BAB of the Historian's class levels increases to 1 per class level. This does not affect any other classes he may have.
◦The Historian gains a bonus of two hit points per class level.
◦At 1st level, a Historian attuned to ancient warfare gains knowledge of three martial fusillades (see below). At each additional level he gains knowledge of another fusillade.
◦If the Historian chooses to attune to one or more Ancient Warfare Eras, he gains the use of all Ancient Martial Styles associated with those Eras for the day.
•Ancient Wizardry: Ancient Wizardry looks at the pure nature of magic, pulling building blocks from planar areas, forgotten crypts, nodes, or any other area power may have accumulated. Piecing these blocks together into a single, large whole, ancient wizards created magical barrages of unadultered energy, slaughtering their foes as they stepped before them, warping their minds into childish ruins, and summoning creatures out of the vast abyss. His caster level is equal to his class level.◦At 1st level, a Historian attuned to ancient wizardry gains knowledge of a single spell seed. At every odd class level thereafter, he gains knowledge of another, up to a maximum of ten at level 19.
◦The Historian is not afflicted by the tyranny of the spell. Instead, he wields magic of a more pure and elemental form, recalling those days of ancient spellcasting that saw magic used directly, before it was shaped into individual packets. He may combine the effects from multiple seeds, if he so chooses, applying all the effects to a single spell. He may use any number of seeds such that their total spell point cost is equal to or less than the value listed on the chart below.
◦The Historian suffers from Arcane Spell Failure in all armour above light shield and light armour.
•Ancient Prayer: Older religions were more primal in nature, seeking forces rather than humanizing those forces into living creatures in their own image. The sun, birth, growth, death; all of these dominated the ancient prayers. The historian seeks to recreate them, calling down gifts from the older, terrible forces that still have a hand in the world today. His caster level is equal to his character level.
◦At 1st level, a Historian attuned to ancient prayer gains knowledge of a single spell seed. At every third class level thereafter (4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19), he gains knowledge of another, up to a maximum of seven at level 19.
◦At 1st level, and every five levels thereafter (5, 10, 15, 20), the historian gains an ancient sacred gift, chosen from the list below.
Once the Historian has attuned a Technique, he may choose to attune to one or more eras (depending on his class features). If he chooses to attune to a specific era, he must spend 15 extra minutes focusing on that era, and must make a knowledge check denoted in that era's description. If he succeeds, he receives the benefit of the era for the day. If he fails, he receives a -2 penalty to attacks and damage if he is in martial technique, or a 10% chance for spells to fail as an ancient wizard, or a 10% chance that his ancient divine spells and abilities do not function. The Historian may try attuning again by spending another 15 minutes, and may retry any number of times, but the penalties from multiple failures are cumulative. The Historian remains attuned to an era for as long as he is attuned to the associated technique; however, if he ceases to meet the prerequisites of an era, he loses the benefit of that era until he meets them again.
An historian's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Appraise (Int), Autohypnosis (Int), Concentration (Con), Craft (alchemy) (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Gather Information (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (all skills taken individually) (Int), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Speak Language, Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha).
Small: As a Small creature, a kobold gains a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –4 size penalty on grapple checks, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks, uses smaller weapons than humans use, and lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of a Medium character.
Humanoid (dragonblood, reptilian): Kobolds are humanoids with the [dragonblood] and [reptilian] subtypes. For all effects related to race, a kobold is considered a dragon.
Kobold base land speed is 30 feet.
All kobolds add Craft (trapmaking) to their list of class skills.
Light Sensitivity: Kobolds are dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.
Planetouched of Limbo are nearly as ever-changing as the Slaadi themselves. A number of times per day equal to their charisma modifier, the Planetouched may mutate their form. Each mutation lasts for 1 minute and they may have multiple mutations active at a time.
Claws - The Planetouched gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat, and their unarmed attacks deal 1d6 slashing damage (for medium size). A monk's bonus to unarmed damage, the bonus from a Monk's Belt and the Improved Natural Attack feat (or similar effects to these) all apply to this.
Fins - The Planetouched gains a swim speed equal to 1/2 their base land speed.
Gills - The Planetouched can breathe underwater.
Reptilian Skin - The Planetouched gains a climb speed equal to 1/2 their base land speed.
Leather Folds - The Planetouched is effected as if by a feather fall spell.
+2 Knowledge (arcana), +2 Spellcraft, Both usable untrained.
Scaleshift (Su): A scaleshaper has learned to embody the purest form of the Draconic Ideal -- quite literally, in fact. At will as a move action, a scaleshaper may change form into a dragon, for as long as he wishes. The scaleshaper takes the form of a dragon of his expressed Ideal; if he can express more than one Ideal at a time, he chooses one which he is currently expressing when he activates the ability. He can shift directly between two forms without returning to his normal form if he wishes. The abilities of the form are determined by his scaleshaper level, as described below.
At first level, the scaleshaper can take a Wyrmling Form, which looks like a Wyrmling dragon of the appropriate type. At higher levels as indicated on the table above, the scaleshaper can shape higher age categories, with more powerful abilities. No matter what it looks like, the new form's abilities are the same for all scaleshapers. The scaleshaper retains his normal Hit Dice, hit point, base attack bonus, base saving throw bonuses, and skill ranks regardless of the specifics of his new form. He also retains his normal ability scores, though each form grants bonuses to particular ability scores, and possibly saves. The scaleshaper keeps all extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like special attacks and qualities (including his ideal powers) of his normal form, except for those requiring a body part the new form does not have.
In addition, the claw attacks granted by a kobold scaleshaper's Scaleshift ability increase in damage by one size category. This substitution class feature supplements a standard scaleshaper's Scaleshift class feature, and does not replace anything.
Project dragon (Su): A scaleshaper of 2nd level or higher learns to intentionally project his subconscious acceptance of the Draconic Ideal into the physical world, forming minion-dragons to do his bidding. By spending a use of his ideal powers as a standard action, a scaleshaper can create a single Dragon Projection within 30 feet, which has the abilities detailed below. Once created, a Projection may move further than 30 feet from the scaleshaper at no penalty.
The Dragon Projection lasts until killed, dismissed (as a move action), or for 1 round per Idealist level, whichever comes first. However, a scaleshaper may only have one instance of this ability active at a time; if he activates it again while any of his Projections are in existence, the previous Projections vanish as if dismissed.
When created, a Dragon Projection attacks the scaleshaper's enemies to the best of its ability, but he can spend a free action on his turn to mentally direct it not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions. The Dragon Projection acts normally on the last round of the ability's duration, and dissipates at the end of its turn. Dragon Projections are not summoned, and therefore are not subject to effects which hedge out or otherwise affect summoned creatures.
Varied projection (Su): Upon reaching 5th level, a scaleshaper can create Dragon Projections which manifest Ideals he is not expressing. When using his Project Dragon ability, he may choose any Ideal he knows and can express for his Projection to manifest; however, if the Projection manifests an Ideal which he is not expressing, the Projection is created at one category lower.
Dual ideal: A scaleshaper of 8th level or higher learns the ability to express two Ideals simultaneously, gaining the benefit of both Ideals. He can still only change one at a time with the Rapid Re-expression class feature.
Lasting projection (Su): At 9th level, whenever a scaleshaper uses his Project Dragon ability to create a single Dragon Projection, he may spend twice as many uses of his Ideal Powers to change the duration of the ability to 1 hour per Idealist level. The scaleshaper may only have one Lasting Projection at a time; if he uses this ability a second time while already maintaining a Lasting Projection, the first Projection vanishes automatically, as if dismissed.
*Antiethical energy has different effects depending on relative alignments. The further the target or attacker is from True Neutral the more Severe the effects. True Neutral creatures are unaffected by Antiethical Energy and ignore Antiethical Energy resistance. Creatures one step away from True Neutral (Lawful Neutral, etc.) take normal damage from antiethical energy and all energy damage they deal is resisted as normal by antiethical energy. Creatures two steps away from True Neutral (Chaotic Evil, etc) take double damage from antiethical energy, and all energy damage they deal is resisted by twice the normal amount. Creatures whose alignment is obscured in some way (such as the undetectable alignment spell or similar effects) are treated as True Neutral by Antiethical Energy.
*Damage from this Ideal is reduced by one die size. However, you may choose between dealing fire damage, nonlethal bludgeoning damage, piercing damage, or sonic damage each time you use an ability which grants you damage from this Ideal.
Class Skills: All skills are class skills.


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Q: Linux App that monitors log and add rules to iptables I used to use a linux software that monitors logs like http, ssh, etc and if it detects that someone is trying to use brute force, it blocks that ip by adding a rule to iptables. I forgot what that software is called. It's opensource and free.

A: fail2ban does that, although I don't think it's the only such tool.  (Amazed mentioned DenyHosts, although it seems to be SSH specific.)

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I managed to upload data to OSM servers using JOSM—though I had to patch it for Cyrillic usernames (well, any non-Latin-1 characters). Thanks to Bruce Cowan for pointing me in the right direction earlier when it came to uploading existing OSM files.
Thus, I was able to map most of Zemun's Donji Grad (and a few nearby streets of Novi Beograd), but with a few problems I can't seem to be able to solve.
The biggest issue I am running into is joining ways—some of them seem to not look like intersections, yet they share a node. At least when rendered with mapnik—osmarender looks fine.
Osmarender looks better: or at least doesn't show the same defects?
I'd really like to resolve this, because I want these streets to be actually connected. I've tried inserting 'junctions', but that didn't help. Any suggestions?
Other thing I wonder about is about alternative names, and localised names (for streets and objects). I am making use of old_name, name:en and name:sr tags, but I couldn't find any official policy on naming.
I have so far defaulted to using Serbian Cyrillic for street names, but will soon switch them to Latin script, and put Serbian as name:sr tags. I suspect search on OpenStreetMap will return both, but will need to wait for confirmation for a few days. I am also still hoping to render Cyrillic names, though, so I may need to set up a separate tile generator on my own server. Or not?
Yay for blind USA imperialism!
@danilo: the name tag should have the local name in local script, so Serbian Cyrillic is good. In places where there is more than one official language, it means that the name tag has more than one name.
about the junction rendering: I can't see anything wrong with it. The junctions are well connected. The only thing I'm not sure of is your usage of the landuse tag on highway, landuse is for areas. You could use the abutters tag for what you want to do. Mapnik has specific rules for rendering primary on top of residential roads, so this really shouldn't happen. The only thing I can think of is that the landuse tag messes that up somewhat, but even that shouldn't do it... But it strikes me that the primary roads that render correctly are the ones without the landuse tag.
As far as naming goes, I'll go with Serbian Cyrillic for 'name', and add 'name:en' for Serbian Latin names: hopefully that will do for those doing searches with Latin alphabet.
As far as titlecasing goes, I never thought of doing that, and boy, would it look ugly and out-of-place with Serbian (so, I can understand your frustration, Nicolas :)). Since I haven't found anything resembling a naming policy for OpenStreetMap, I wouldn't worry about it, but if you ever need a hand in convincing someone that titlecasing is silly, I'd be welcome to chip in.
I'm just getting started with OSM but it seems Russia uses cyrillic, Israel uses hebrew etc and it all shows up as expected on the main osm mapnik tileserver so if cyrillic is what you'd use locally I'd go for it.
This seems to be backed up by http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Naming which suggests following whatever the local street signs use.
a) they have both name:ja and name:ja_rm as well as name:en for some with rm (romaji?) being the romanised version.
c) neither mapnik nor osmarender get the non-roman version right, both breaking in different ways.
d) the tiles@home tileserver used by default on openstreetmap.jp does better with the japanese, but seems to not have the ability to stop names colliding when clustered too close.
Serbian Latin names probably should be name:sr@latn=*, as it isn't actually English. The name=* tag is the only one that is rendered (for now) however, so this should be the default for the area. For instance, the Western Isles off Scotland use Gaelic, so name=* is places' Gaelic names, and name:en=* is their English name.
As far as I understood it from the wiki, name= should be used for the official name of a city/street/whatever as it is rendered by default. name:lang is also used in the search engine.
I believe the correct OSM approach is to use what ever the street sign on the ground says, in what ever that language is. Use serbian in cyrillic if that's what it says.
I'd advise against using name:en=* for latin transcriptions of serbian names. perhaps something like name:sr_latin=* or something.


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Dhamma, the Dickwella way!
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Text and pix by P.D. De Silva IN contrast to gory scenes a few miles away in Aluthgama, the Chief Incumbent Priests of eight Buddhist temples in and around Dickwella led by Dickwella Shasana Bala Mandalaya President Ven. Godellewela Rathananda in an exemplary move spent two hours on Monday night at the Muhiyibdeen Jumma Mosque at Yonakpura, Dickwella. The act of solidarity was to strengthen communal ties and avert any fears of an extremist uprising in the area as an aftermath of the unfortunate incidents in Aluthgama and Beruwala. Clergy from Buddhist temples in Dickwella and Islamic devotees of the main mosque from the area in a sincere act of harmony during their engagement on Monday The decision to visit the mosque was made on Monday morning at an emergency meeting held at the Dickwella Pradeshiya Sabha on the instructions of Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma. The delegation of Buddhist monks accompanied by all the members of the Dickwella Pradeshiya Sabha led by Chairman Krishali Muthukumarana, Officer-in-Charge of the Dickwella Police Station Lasantha Dadallage and other Government officials were warmly welcomed by the Moulavi of the Muhiyideen Jumma Mosque Mohamed Akbar Mohamed Shamil and the Muslim community. Addressing those gathered, the venerable clergy said that the root cause of the incidents in Aluthgama and Beruwala were due to ill-informed and misguided masses and that the people of Dickwella should be vigilant of persons who would try to instigate communal disharmony in their town. The people of Dickwella and its surroundings are known to each other and have lived in harmony by respecting each other's beliefs and customs. They assured that there had been no animosity between the communities in the past and nor would animosity arise in the future. Dickwella Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Krishali Muthukumarana said that all the members of the PS irrespective of their political affiliations would ensure that no communal hatred was instigated among the constituents of the area.

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An account is given of how the 'box integrals', as used for one-loop calculations in massless field theory, appear in momentum-twistor geometry. Particular attention is paid to the role of compact contour integration in representing the Feynman propagator in twistor space. An explicit calculation of all the box integrals, using only elementary methods, is included.


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A Proper And Polite Education: Girlhood Embroidery Of The American South - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
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A Proper And Polite Education: Girlhood Embroidery Of The American South
The painstaking stitchery of exquisitely wrought schoolgirl embroidery is the subject of the new exhibit "A Proper and Polite Education: Girlhood Embroidery of the American South" at The Charleston Museum. The alphabets, verses, numbers and pictures worked in silk by colonial girls are as fresh and colorful today as they were more than two centuries ago. The exhibit, which comprises around 100 objects, is a treat for the eye and is open through September 30.
Aside from the sheer visual pleasure that the exhibition provides, it is a reexamination of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Southern schoolgirl needlework, of which recognition of and research into is relatively recent. Its scope extends to considerations of the cultural, ethnic and racial diversity of the early South, settlement patterns, the evolution of women's education and the implications of gentility. At the same time, it raises interesting questions about the distinctions between the Northern and Southern manifestations of the art of the needle.
The needlework on view was made by schoolgirls in the Chesapeake, the Low Country and the Back Country areas of the antebellum American South; that is, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. That they survived the ravages of the Civil War and several natural disasters is remarkable. They are displayed according to theme rather than chronology or geography. The exhibition opens with an explication of the origins of sampler making, and several early examples are on view. A sampler from the Egyptian Mamluk period, a Seventeenth Century Italian fragment and a circa 1700 sampler that was made in England or America demonstrate the techniques and designs that influenced later work.
William Levington, born in New York a free black and later ordained as an Episcopal priest, established St James' First African Protestant Episcopal Church in Baltimore in 1824, the first Episcopal church for African Americans South of the Mason-Dixon line. Levington also initiated a free school within the church. He worked this sampler himself in 1832 and dedicated it to James Bosley, who had donated the land for the church. It is more in the style of a Philadelphia sampler, the city in which he spent his youth. Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The exhibit then focuses on the connections between girlhoodeducation and the settlement of the South, the role of schoolmistresses, samplers and religious experience, embroidery and theAfrican American experience, embroidery and social status in theSouth and techniques and stitchery itself.
Significant scholarship has been devoted to Northern schoolgirl needlework, but only within the last decade or so has its Southern counterpart begun to be studied. Samplers worked by Southern schoolgirls have long been thought to have been merely an offshoot of the Northern traditions in which schoolgirls were educated formally. The two are, in fact, vastly different.
Exhibit curator Kathleen Staples has done extensive research on Southern Schoolgirl embroidery. For her every sampler tells a story, often one that would otherwise remain unknown. The works on view and others that she has studied reflect the curious blend of religion, economy and social structure of the antebellum South. The spring 2006 issue Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly is devoted to her discussion of the exhibit at The Charleston Museum.
Needlework of the Northern cities, where formal "female academies" proliferated, can typically be grouped according to its stylistic similarities thought to have emanated from the classroom setting. For example, samplers incorporating the "Fishing Lady" were particular to Boston, as were Adam and Eve samplers.
The elegant embroidered picture was made by an unidentified Charleston worker sometime after 1782. It is made of silk thread on a satin-weave silk ground with linen backing.
Students at the Mary Balch school in Providence, R.I.,produced samplers and other needlework with distinctive floralborders surrounding one or another of the public buildings in town.They also worked in fruit baskets and floral swags and used rococo,rice, diagonal cross, split, Oriental and diagonal darningstitches.
Southern schoolgirl needlework, for the most part, exhibits a noticeable absence of particular themes, except where the embroidery was created in religious schools. The distinction between Northern and Southern embroidery derives from a combination of factors that are geographic, economic and cultural. The agrarian nature of the colonial South, its diffuse population and the institution of slavery gave rise to a society that differed greatly from that of the North.
Settlement in the South began with the arrival of the English in Jamestown in 1607. Later immigrations of Scots, Germans and other Europeans, colonists from Barbados and the French islands, and Africans only added to the rich cultural olio that flourished. An English social structure prevailed over all – complete with its own aristocracy.
Southern embroidery evinces strong English influences, whereas Northern examples, particularly early Boston ones, betray aspects of the Puritan. Newport samplers often featured architecture, and Philadelphian ones exhibit influences of Quakerism.
A sampler wrought between 1820 and 1825 by a girl of the Cherokee nation is one of the favorites of Kathleen Staples, the exhibition curator. The sampler was worked before its removal under the tutelage of Baptist missionaries, and Eliza Bayard was actually the Christian name of the unknown embroiderer's benefactor.
Mary Bella Hopkins was 12 years old when she completed her sampler on November 28, 1828. She used cross and square eyelet stitches to create a compound of houses suggestive of gentility. The sheep at the bottom are frequently seen in Charleston samplers of the period.
The unusual horizontal configuration of Sarah Ann Walker's1840 sampler was seen sometimes in western North Carolina andeastern and central Tennessee, and its color (red and green) andthe use of wool yarn instead of silk thread imply Scottishinfluences.
"A Proper and Polite Education" examines the needlework traditions of the antebellum South, at the same time it spotlights the evolution of the education of women. In conjunction with the burgeoning prosperity, an aspiration to gentility developed, fueled by the economy. Improving one's social position was important. Even more important, however, was education, particularly of women.
Reading and writing were primary, but needlework had its place – if only in the pursuit of gentility rather than utility. Children (girls and boys) attended schools and seminaries or were tutored at home. After the Revolutionary War, female education took on a more serious note and studies expanded to include grammar, arithmetic, science and history. Girls were also instructed in painting in watercolor and on velvet, embroidery, crewel, tambour, netting, beadwork, filigree, artificial flowers and lace making. Skill with the needle was the mark of a cultivated, educated and marketable female. Since a thriving trade in ready-made clothing prospered in the South, particularly in colonial South Carolina, needlework, for some white girls, was almost a social grace. Masters were employed to teach drawing, music, dancing, French and Italian. Such training was key to the gentility to which so many aspired.
Education was not merely for the gentry, however. For African girls who were sent to school, education and skill with the needle assured them a more stable future than they might otherwise have enjoyed. Since ready-made clothing was available in Charleston and other cities, useful needlework would include embroidery of seat covers, curtains and other household articles. One enslaved woman used her considerable needlework skills to sew for families in addition to her master's and was able ultimately to buy her freedom.
An African American sampler worked by Rachel Ann Lee at the Oblate Sisters of Providence School in Baltimore is dated July 3, 1846. The sampler retains the original black painted frame. The cypress trees and the animals and the nicely dressed woman suggest a southern European theme. Collection of Bill and Joyce Subjack.
In Maryland, where a slave economy coexisted with the largestfree African American society in the United States, and where along tradition of religious freedom prevailed, several religiousorders made it their mission to instruct the young AfricanAmericans. In 1829, a group of African American women from theislands established themselves in Baltimore as the Oblate Sistersof Providence, a Roman Catholic order. They instructed theirstudents in academics and ornamental arts and religion, with theaim of instilling in them the skills to become mothers of familiesor household servants.
Another important bastion of girlhood education, also Roman Catholic, was St Joseph's Academy, established by Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the Sisters of Charity. The goal of the school was the education of girls from poor families, but subsequent financial difficulties prompted the nuns to open their doors to the daughters of the affluent. Students at St Joseph's produced impressive mourning embroideries and embroidered images of the school's log building. The quality of the needlework created under the tutelage of the nuns was considered superior then and remains highly prized today. Some 38 embroideries worked at the school have returned there in recent years.
In Charleston, as in Maryland, an influx of French-Caribbean refugees introduced new and desired elements of gentility and refinement. Several opened schools, the most expensive and most desirable of which was Ann Marsan Talavande's French boarding school that attracted the daughters of the elite. In 1751, Anna Maria Hoyland advertised her services as teacher of reading and sewing in the Charleston newspapers. By 1757, her day school expanded to include boarding students, and she engaged a male teacher to instruct students in writing and arithmetic, dancing, music and French.
Other similar schools taught the daughters and the servants of the gentry. The Quakers, too, were a large presence in the South, particularly in North Carolina and Virginia.
Isabella Elizabeth Safford embroidered the picture in 1800 with gilt metal purl stitch, metal spangles, silk thread, silk chenille, watercolor on a satin-weave silk ground and dated it July 24, 1820. She later married a minister.
In North Carolina, which was more rural than the otherSouthern states, education was closely linked to religion. Childrenof plantation owners were instructed alongside the servants of thehouse, whether they were slaves, free African Americans orindentured servants. The earliest school was the Salem GirlsBoarding School, established in 1772 (and still in operation) byMoravians, who were committed to the education of women.
Jacob Mordecai opened his Female Academy in Warrenton, N.C., in 1809. He was the first to offer a classical education to women. Like other schools of the era, the influence was French and, although Mordecai and his family who helped run the school were Jewish, the school was distinctly Protestant. Mordecai's Female Academy and the Milton Female Academy, which opened its doors in 1820, drew students from North and South Carolina, southern Virginia and Georgia. Mordecai's advertised educational aim was "to form the mind to the labour of thinking upon and understanding what is taught." Admissions were high. Subjects of study included reading and writing, grammar, spelling, composition, history, geography and the use of the globe, arithmetic and the plain and ornamental branches of needlework. Three examples of work by students at the Female Academy are on view.
"A Proper and Polite Education: Girlhood Embroidery of the American South" remains on view through September 30. Founded in 1773, the museum itself was modeled after the British Museum, which was established in 1759. It is America's first museum.
The Charleston Museum is at 360 Meeting Street. For information, 843-722-2996 or www.charlestonmuseum.org.


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El calendari suec fou utilitzat a Suècia des de l'1 de març de 1700 fins al 30 de febrer de 1712 i equivalia al calendari julià però amb un dia de diferència. El novembre de 1699 es va decidir que Suècia començaria a adoptar el nou calendari gregorià a partir de 1700.

El procés havia de reduir-se gradualment un dia per any, durant onze anys. Algunes fonts indiquen que la intenció era saltar-se tots els dies intercalats entre 1700 i 1740, per a acostar-se al calendari gregorià. Segons el pla, l'any que era de traspàs en el calendari julià no ho va ser a Suècia, però no es van efectuar més reduccions suplementàries en els anys successius. El 1711, el rei Carles XII va declarar que Suècia abandonaria aquest calendari, que no s'utilitzava per cap altra nació i que no va complir el seu objectiu en favor del retorn a l'antic calendari julià. Per a tornar a sincronitzar-se amb aquest va fer afegir un dia suplementari al febrer de 1712 que es va convertir doblement en any de traspàs i va comptar amb un mes de febrer de 30 dies. El 1753, Suècia finalment va utilitzar el calendari gregorià i el salt d'onze dies es va dur a terme passant del 17 de febrer a l'1 de març. Tot i això, Suècia no va acceptar les regles gregorianes per a determinar Pàsqua fins al 1844.

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This week's edition of our Apps of the Week roundup includes an app for creating 3D holograms, an app for recommending new dishes at restaurants, and an Awesome voice note-taker. And as always, we've selected two great new games for you to check out.
Have an iPhone X? Here is an interesting app worth checking out this weekend. It's called HoloBack, and it allows you to create and share 3D hologram videos with your friends. Say Happy Birthday, show your excitement for an upcoming event—the possibilities here are endless. The app itself is fairly basic right now, and again you need a TrueDepth camera to create the hologram. Still, what a cool concept.
This app isn't new, but if you like good food and aren't aware of it, you have to check it out. Likemeal is a social network for lovers of delicious food. It helps you discover new places based on trusted recommendations, try new and unusual dishes that have been deemed tasty by experts, leave your own recommendations and even follow other food-lovers. No more "what's good here?" Now you know.
In search of a new voice notes app? Check out Awesome Voice Notes. I know, the name is a bit on the nose, but the app itself is worth a look. It has a sharp, minimal interface and does what you'd want it to: records voice notes with a single tap of a button. Features include an editable title and caption, a handy Today Widget, a voice-to-text transcription feature, and all notes are searchable by Siri.
Pilot Perils is a side-scrolling, flying action-adventure game set in a steampunk world full of floating islands and exotic steam-powered machines. Take command of a steampunk flying machine and pilot through physics-based challenges on your quest to retrieve the components of your stolen invention, which could just save the world. Free initial play, but some levels are hidden behind IAPs.
Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets hiding in the basement. You play against an advanced AI that learns from your every move. Really enjoy climbing through that backwindow? Expect a bear trap there. Sneaking through the front door? Not anymore. This is another game that's free to try, but IAPs unlock deeper levels.


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Мануэль Квинцато (; ; род. , , Италия) — итальянский профессиональный  шоссейный велогонщик, выступающий с 2011 года за команду . Двукратный Чемпион мира в командной гонке на время. Чемпион Италии в индивидуальной гонке 2016 года.

Победы

 2001
 1-й — Чемпионат Европы U-23 — Индивидуальная гонка
 1-й на этапе 2 — GP Tell
 1-й на этапе 1 — Giro delle Regione
 2002
 4-й — Тур Бельгии
 2003
 2-й — Чемпионат Италии в индивидуальной гонке
 2004
 3-й — Кубок Японии
 9-й — Тур Бельгии
 2005
 9-й — Тур Катара
 10-й — Trofeo Laigueglia
 2006
 5-й — Энеко Тур
 1-й на этапе 1
 6-й — Тур Дании
 2007
 4-й — E3 Харелбеке
 4-й — Гран-при Фурми
 2008
 2-й — Три дня Де-Панне
 2-й — Chrono des Nations
 2009
 4-й — Три дня Де-Панне
 9-й — Париж — Рубе
 9-й — Гент — Вевельгем
 2010
 10-й — Три дня Де-Панне
 2011
 8-й — Омлоп Хет Ниувсблад
 2012
 8-й — Тур Бельгии
 2014
 1-й  Чемпионат мира — Командная гонка
 2015
 1-й  Чемпионат мира — Командная гонка
 1-й на этапе 9(TTT) — Тур де Франс
 1-й на этапе 3(ТТТ) — Критериум Дофине
 1-й на этапе 7 — Энеко Тур 2015
 2016
 1-й  — Чемпионат Италии в индивидуальной гонке
 1-й на этапе 1(ТТТ) — Тиррено — Адриатико
 1-й на этапе 5(ТТТ) — Энеко Тур
 2-й — Чемпионат мира — Командная гонка
 4-й — Тур Катара

Статистика выступлений на Гранд Турах
Тур де Франс
Участие:9
2005: 131
2006: 80
2007: 113
2008: 130
2010: 162
2011: 115
2012: 109
2013: 85
2015: 120; Победа на этапе 9 (ТТТ)
Джиро д'Италия
Участие:4
2003: 86
2009: 106
2014: 112
2016: 117
Вуэльта Испании
Участие:5
2004: 94
2008: сход на 18 этапе; Победа на этапе 1 (ТТТ)
2009: 126
2011: 131
2014: 68

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Trailer Reaction
KGF – New Kannada Film Teaser
January 17, 2018 January 17, 2018 moviemavengalLeave a comment
My Youtube channel commenters were clammering for me to react to this new teaser trailer. This film KGF, which may stand for Kolar Gold Fields, seems to be a period (80's) piece. The film is going to be released in two parts, and released in five languages. The film is written and directed by Prashanth Neel and produced by Vijay Kiragandur under the banner Hombale films. It stars Yash and Srinidhi Ramesh Shetty in the lead roles.
It's really interesting how this teaser shows both some making of clips of scenes that may not be trailer ready, and then a short teaser trailer featuring the star Yash.
I'm super impressed by what I've seen so far, and I hope this film does come to Chicago. The full trailer is due out in February.
Kannada Cinema, Trailers, UncategorizedKannada Cinema, KGF, Pardesi, Prashanth Neel, Srinidhi Ramesh Shetty, Trailer Reaction, Vijay Kiragandur, Yash
Tiger Zinda Hai – Trailer reaction and first song!
November 29, 2017 November 29, 2017 moviemavengal2 Comments
I'm so looking forward to Salman Khan's big Christmas release where he reteams with Katrina Kaif in the sequel Tiger Zinda Hai. This uses the same real life story as the Malayalam film Take Off (which i still need to see.)
This first song from the film is perfect for Salman, and Katrina gets to show off her moves. The video was filmed on a Greek Island that is just stunningly gorgeous! I've ben to Santorini, and the islands are really that jaw droppingly beautiful in person.
Bollywood, Hindi Cinema, Song of the Day!, Trailers, Uncategorized, Video ReviewBollywood, Hindi Cinema, Katrina Kaif, Pardesi, Salman Khan, Song Reaction, Swag Se Swagat, Tiger Zinda Hai, Trailer Reaction, Video Review
Padmavati Trailer Released!
October 10, 2017 October 11, 2017 moviemavengal10 Comments
At first I was just unabashedly excited about this trailer. A new Bhansali film is an event. I didn't know the historical back story in full. I didn't know the tragic ending — should have guessed Bhansali would pick a story with a tragic ending.
Then I read Margaret's reaction to the trailer, and I saw just how demonic and crazed they are making the Muslim king played by Ranveer. This film could have been told in a very different way than what this trailer shows us. I'm very conflicted now. I can't miss the problems now that she's pointed out the issues. I said Ranveer looks like Rasputin. And that's on purpose.
Bollywood, Trailers, Uncategorized, Video ReviewBhansali, Deepika Pudakone, Padmavati, Pardesi, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Trailer Reaction
New Solo Teaser – Dulquer Salmaan as Shekar
September 27, 2017 September 27, 2017 moviemavengal2 Comments
I found this Shekar teaser trailer really interesting. The look reminds me a bit of Dulquer in Charlie. We learn the character has a stutter, which I think Dulquer pulls off really well in the small amount of dialogue shown here.
The actress Dhansika who plays Rhadika in this trailer is just stunningly beautiful. Loved the little bit of their romance shown, and wondering what leads to her tears and him being beat up in the end of the trailer.
Can't for this film!!
Indian Cinema, Malayalam Cinema, Trailers, Uncategorized, Video ReviewDhansika, Dulquer Salmaan, Pardesi, Shekar, Solo, Teaser trailer, Trailer Reaction
Mahesh Babu SPYDER full trailer released!
September 15, 2017 September 15, 2017 moviemavengalLeave a comment
Still no subtitles, but Kartik tells me Mahesh is playing the equivalent of an FBI analyst. The romance track looks so cute! That boulder shot down the street — THAT I was not expecting. Hmmm. I'll be there first day, first show to see what it's all about.
Telugu Cinema, Trailers, UncategorizedA. R. Murugadoss, Mahesh Babu, Pardesi, Rahut Preet Singh, Spyder, Telugu Cinema, Trailer Reaction
Jai Lava Kusa Full Trailer looks Amazing!
September 11, 2017 September 11, 2017 moviemavengal1 Comment
This Jr NTR trailer looks really good. I was loving all the teasers of the three characters he plays in the film, Jai (Raavan type), Lava (the nerd) and Kusa (rowdy hero?), but now this full trailer with subtitles shows me how much humor will be in the film. So funny!
I also love the indication of the big dance numbers, since NTR is a great dancer. Also, the fact that the characters are related is NOT a big secret to be revealed as it is in so many other double role Indian films. That's refreshing.
I may not be able to see this one the first few days it's out here in Chicago (it's out on a Thursday here) and it's killing me.
So excited to see NTR on the big screen for the first time!
Here's the trailer with subtitles (which don't work inside my reaction videos.)
Indian Cinema, Telugu Cinema, Uncategorized, Video ReviewJai Lava Kusa, Jr. NTR, NTR, Pardesi, Trailer, Trailer Reaction, Video Review
Hindi Trailer Roundup
September 6, 2017 September 6, 2017 moviemavengal22 Comments
I am really looking forward to Varun Dhawan in Judwaa 2. This seems like the perfect kind of comedy for him.
Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi seems like a good fit for Rishi Kapoor, but I'm not familiar with the actor playing his son.
Newton, starring Rajkummar Roa, will be the opening night film for the Chicago South Asian Film Festival. I'm not going to be able to attend that screening, but Rajkummar will be staying through the weekend and doing a Q&A for his film Trapped.
Saif Ali Khan is remaking Jon Favreau's Chef. This is a good fit for him. I'm going to enjoy seeing Saif as a father onscreen.
UncategorizedChef, David Dhawan, Hindi Cinema, Jon Favreau, Newton, Pardesi, Patel Ki Punjabi, Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, Rajkummar Rao, Rishi Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Trailer Reaction, Trailers, Varun Dhawan
Telugu Trailer Roundup
September 5, 2017 September 5, 2017 moviemavengalLeave a comment
Here's a roundup of some of the latest Telugu trailers. I think I'm most looking forward to Chay Akkineini's newest film.
Rana Daggubati is center in this trailer for what may be a web series. Looks like a cross between Mr. Robot and Scandal:
Meda Meeda Abbayi:
Mahanubhavudu starring Sharwanand and Mehreen Kaur, directed by Maruthi. I like this nerdy persona by Sharwanand, an actor new to me.
Paisa Vasool just looks insane.
Ravi Teja in Raja the Great:
I'm also really psyched for Jr. NTR in Jai Lava Kusa.
Indian Cinema, Telugu Cinema, Trailers, UncategorizedAkkineni Naga Chaitanya, Chaitanya, Chay Akkineni, Jai Lava Kusa, Jr. NTR, Mahanubhavudu, Meda Meeda Abbayi, Mehreen Kaur, Naga Chaitanya, Paisa Vasool, Raja the Great, Rana Daggubati, Sharwanand, Social, Telugu, Trailer Reaction, Trailers, Yuddham Sharanam
Rajinikanth and Akshay – Making of 2.0
Rajinikanth's Enthiran (Robot) was pretty mind-blowing in the imagination. It's also very unusual to have a Sci-fi themed Indian film. I love this first look behind the scenes of 2.0. We get to see the makeup sessions for Rajinikanth and Akshay (love that look!) and some of the green screen work.
This is a Tamil film I'm looking forward to. The release date will be in January.
Indian Cinema, Tamil Cinema, Uncategorized2.0, Akshay Kumar, Enthiran, Making of 2.0, Pardesi, Rajinikanth, Robot, Trailer Reaction
Malayalam Trailer Roundup
With the holiday of Onam, there is a cluster of big releases in Kerala. There are new releases from Nivin Pauly, Mohanlal and Prithviraj. Also we've had a few teasers now for Solo, Dulquer Salmaan's upcoming film Solo.
Mohzin (@mohzin_azad ) reports from Kerala that the Prithviraj and Nivin Pauly films are doing well in Kerala and getting decent reviews, while the Mohanlal is average. There can be a couple of week delay until we get Malayalam films here in Chicago, but I hope I can catch some of these new films in the theater.
Here is my song reaction to Enthaavo from Nivin Pauly's Njandukalude Naatil Oridavela. Enthaavo has been on the top of the Malayalam charts on Saavn.
There's also been a trailer and a song from Mohanlal's Velipadinte Pusthakam. Mohanal plays the vice principal of a school in the film.
Adam Joan is a new thriller starring Prithviraj. It seems to have been mostly filmed in Scotland.
And finally, we get another teaser trailer from Dulquer Salmaan — the character Siva from Solo. I'm not sure we've ever seen Dulquer play a gangster like this.
Indian Cinema, Malayalam Cinema, Trailers, Uncategorized, Video ReviewAdam Joan, Dulquer, Dulquer Salmaan, Enthaavo, Mohanlal, Nivin Pauly, Njandukalude Naatil Oridavela, Pardesi, Prithviraj, Solo, Trailer Reaction, Velipadinte Pusthakam


The exhibition explores the history of forced adoption practices from 1950 to 1975 in Australia and follows on from the 2012 Senate enquiry into the Commonwealth Contributions into Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices. The inquiry recommended a national apology; subsequently delivered by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in March 2013. We are very proud to have designed an exhibition that responds to and contains this sensitive and important history.
The exhibition content was informed by the Forced Adoptions History Project website developed by the National Archives in 2014 which was developed after a series of stakeholder workshops. A second series of stakeholder workshops was used to develop content for the exhibition. The central form of the exhibition is inspired by drawings and reoccurring motifs mentioned by stakeholders of the infinity symbol, the shapes of a circle and broken circle.
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally launched the exhibition on 30 March 2015 to mark the 2nd anniversary of the national apology.


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President Trump's Stain on Brett Kavanaugh and How to Remove It
The nominee's views on criminal investigation of a sitting president
by Norman L. Eisen and Ryan Goodman
A debate has erupted over Judge Brett Kavanaugh's views on legal issues which could arise out of the pending investigations of the man who has nominated him for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump. These issues include whether a sitting president should be immune from criminal processes such as investigation and indictment. Both of us have written in recent days to address these and related topics (Eisen in the New York Times with Caroline Fredrickson, Goodman in Just Security with Bob Bauer). In this essay we address some further aspects of the problematic and historically unprecedented situation in which we find ourselves: a president who is the subject of a criminal investigation nominating a judge who could be the deciding vote with respect to pivotal issues in that investigation and selecting that nominee based, at least in part, reportedly upon a review of his views suggesting how he would come out on disputes in that investigation.
The debate about Judge Kavanaugh is developing along multiple tracks. We focus here on the question of what exactly the nominee's writings say about whether a president can be subject to criminal investigation and indictment.
There is disagreement over the answer to that question among progressive, independent, and centrist legal commentators who we respect. Noah Feldman, Asha Rangappa, and Ben Wittes assert that Kavanaugh has either expressed no view of the constitutional question or, if anything, that Kavanaugh's writings imply he thinks a sitting president is not immune from indictment.
To be clear, the questions we raise in addressing our colleagues' views are neither about Judge Kavanaugh's professional qualifications for the Supreme Court, nor about the timing of the nomination hearings while President Trump reportedly remains a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. We are concerned, instead, about the fate of American institutions were Judge Kavanaugh to refuse to answer questions about his views on presidential immunities during the nomination hearing or refuse to commit to recusing himself if his answers or non-answers so demand it. In other words, this is the "big question" that Greg Sargent has outlined for the nomination hearings.
High constitutional principles are at stake. In our view, no person should be a judge in their own case. An application of that principle is that no person should get to preselect the judge that hears their case. Were a Justice Kavanaugh to issue the deciding vote in a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion on a criminal case implicating the President, it may do long-term damage to the Court and to what remains of the American national community. It would reverberate within the public and future students of the law like Bush v. Gore, only worse (likely much worse).
In this regard, we fundamentally disagree with our friend and colleague Asha Rangappa's framing the question as about a technical conflict of interest or about anything having to do with Kavanaugh's changing his views to please President Trump. There is no technical conflict in the traditional sense. The problem is, indeed, something of the opposite: that Justice Kavanaugh was chosen because of, and will remain committed to, his convictions about the president's immunity from criminal process. (If anything, Trump is the one who has a conflict between his personal interests and those of the public.) We also depart from our friends and colleagues Noah Feldman and Ben Wittes, who, in separate articles, explain away Judge Kavanaugh's clearly stated beliefs. But no amount of interpretive creativity can erase Judge Kavanaugh's public pronouncements in the Minnesota Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, two pieces in the Washington Post, an American Enterprise Institute speech, judicial opinions, or any of the other publications that have printed them. It is impossible to square our colleagues' contention that Judge Kavanaugh's various articles, for example, merely outline a singular legislative policy suggestion and do not have any implications "from a legal and constitutional perspective" (as Feldman puts it) with Judge Kavanaugh's own constitutional analysis.
One example, among several, is Judge Kavanaugh's writing that, "The Constitution itself seems to dictate, in addition, that congressional investigation must take place in lieu of criminal investigation when the President is the subject of investigation, and that criminal prosecution can occur only after the President has left office." In 1999, Kavanaugh co-wrote a piece for the Washington Post with a fellow Ken Starr alumnus in which he stated that President Clinton's "congressional supporters and foes agreed — consistent with the Constitution, which appears to preclude indictment of a sitting president — that the government should consider indicting Bill Clinton after he leaves office." (Emphasis added.) These are unmistakably statements of constitutional interpretation; they are exactly the type of analysis that Judge Kavanaugh might soon be asked to perform should he consider the Mueller investigation as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh told us his opinion on independent investigations of the president. We, the Senate, and the nation need to know whether we are right to take him at his word.
Even if our colleagues are correct in their description of Judge Kavanaugh's many statements on the immunity of a sitting president, these statements are still important areas of inquiry during the confirmation process. In fact, it is crucial to consider a judge's policy preferences when we are considering appointing him to a Court that, in essence, makes policy. Supreme Court Justices consider many cases that involve completely novel fact patterns for which little or no precedent exists; in these cases—some of which may very well arise from the Mueller investigation—the Justices will make determinations by drawing upon both their interpretation of the Constitution and their policy perspectives. Clinton v. Jones is an illustrative case in which the Justices concluded that subjecting a president to civil suit would not unduly interfere with his ability to perform his official duties. And, indeed, Judge Kavanaugh has written about how his own executive branch experiences inform his views of the type of calculation in Jones. In sum, we should demand that Senators receive a clear picture of Judge Kavanaugh's constitutional and constitutionally-relevant policy positions.
This is one reason we also consider it misguided to analyze each of Judge Kavanaugh's public pronouncements without a larger, holistic consideration of his career on the federal bench. Judge Kavanaugh's academic articles, from his time serving in Kenneth Starr's special counsel's office to his time as a federal judge, represent only a small fraction of his legal thinking—the vast majority of which he has done as a judge on the D.C. Circuit. His judicial opinions paint a very different picture of his legal theory than our colleagues have posited, and invite more questions than answers about his views on the constitutionality of independent investigations.
Judge Kavanaugh helped pioneer a maximalist theory of presidential power associated with the notion of a "unitary executive." Throughout his tenure on the bench, Judge Kavanaugh has used this theory of presidential power to insulate the President from suit and vastly expand the President's ability to exert control over executive agencies at the expense of their independence. This vision of unaccountable presidential power was part of the reason that the Republican-controlled Senate took more than three years to confirm Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit in 2006—and it is exactly why our colleagues are now wrong to dismiss Judge Kavanaugh's public pronouncements on the inadvisability of criminally investigating the President. At the very least, Judge Kavanaugh must be asked to clarify and expand upon these declarations.
In the end, we may actually share common ground with Rangappa and others that the fundamental concern is that Kavanaugh has already strongly indicated his views and he'll largely stick with them. Trump's team that vetted potential nominees reportedly looked at Kavanaugh's past public pronouncements on indicting a sitting president. Most recently, in a public speech at the American Enterprise Institute in fall 2017, the judge also signaled out one Supreme Court opinion by Justice Rehnquist with which he disagreed: the opinion upholding the constitutionality of the independent counsel statute. It was at a time that commentators noted, "Kavanaugh tops the list of judges most often named as Trump's next pick." There is an unmistakable appearance that President Trump potentially selected the judge, in significant part, because of his set of views on this area of law.
That's the historic juncture at which the nation finds itself. The situation involves the president as a potential target of an ongoing criminal investigation into a foreign power's interference in the democratic process. Under the circumstances, what we ask for is relatively modest. The Senate has a duty to consider the full scope of the nominee's views on the law and on legal and judicial policy. If Judge Kavanaugh can assure the Senate and the American people that he is not committed to an unaccountable imperial presidency, as suggested by his writings, then this matter would be laid to rest. If he cannot do so or refuses to answer such lines of inquiry, he must commit to recusing himself from any decisions at the intersection of the special counsel investigation and the related exercise of presidential powers. The public's trust in the Court and the Court's impact on our constitutional system hangs in the balance.
What happens after those questions are (we hope) posed is yet another potential threat or opportunity for the American constitutional system in the Trump era. How Judge Kavanaugh responds can be a defining moment for that, whether for good or for ill. It is also a defining moment for those of us who study, write and/or teach about these issues—whether we try to minimize the potential rupture by papering over Kavanaugh's views or whether we acknowledge the breadth of his views of presidential power and grapple more directly with how to address them given the challenges at this pivot point in our history. We think it is appropriate to ask scholars, analysts and citizens to step into this space and demand more of ourselves, of Senators, and of the nominee.
Brett Kavanaugh,
Mueller investigation,
Presidential Powers,
Norman L. Eisen
Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and author of the forthcoming book The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House. Follow him on Twitter (@NormEisen).
Ryan Goodman
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Just Security, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, former Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-2016). Follow him on Twitter (@rgoodlaw).
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January 3, 2020 by Brian Egan and Tess Bridgeman
A National Security Impeachment
December 17, 2019 by Harold Hongju Koh
Republican Leaders are Playing a Dangerous Game
December 10, 2019 by Alex Finley
House Should Consider Additional Impeachment Charge Relating to Trump's Response to Russia Investigation
December 9, 2019 by Kate Martin
December 4, 2019 by Sheldon Whitehouse
White House Counsel Sends Fiona Hill Letter on "Executive Privilege" on Eve of Public Hearing
November 21, 2019 by Just Security
Why Officials Keep Testifying Despite White House Counsel's Letter on Impeachment Inquiry
October 28, 2019 by Michael Stern
October 17, 2019 by James Lamond and Talia Dessel
Trump's Extortion of Ukraine Is an Impeachable Abuse of Power
October 3, 2019 by Frank O. Bowman, III
October 2, 2019 by Andy Wright and David Peet
Nuts and Bolts of the IG Report on Comey: Correcting Misconceptions
September 3, 2019 by Kel McClanahan


DMB zip hoodie from Alternative Apparel featuring iconic fire-dancer artwork on the left chest.
Great hoodie! It is poly cotton so will wash up well and not shrink. The material is good quality and it's thick. The only thing I don't understand is why the material content was not listed. I guess people don't know fabrics these days so nobody cares. I almost didn't buy it because it was gift and I wasn't sure about the fabric. I called and they didn't know either and thought it was probably just cotton.